My old server, which is actually a Gateway desktop machine from 1997, has an old SCSI card in it. It's an Advansys. The Linux driver for this card hasn't been updated in forever. There are apparently problems with the driver, although I have had none ( Read more... )

I tried, and failed, today to send a "Magic Sysrq" to a linux box to which I was connected by a console server. I'm using Mac OS X. Is this even possible? If so, how?

I'm sitting at D's right now and there's a tech guy here installing things. A 37" flatscreen LG monitor is up on the wall with the root@localhost prompt. There are driver messages all over the screen. He looks sad. It's like a trip back to 1996, when everything was done by hand. Apparently the mode lines aren't quite right ( Read more... )